On Saturday April 5th, seven intrepid paddlers met under a threatening cloudy sky at Thompson's Brdige parking lot to run the much maligned and dispised Lower Reach of the Brandywine River. As they crusied down the river toward the Rockland Road Dam the sun broke out and the air began to warm up. The first four dams were run without incident. If you don't count a moment of doubt when trip leader Ed was briefly deylay by the hydraulic at the bottom of the five foot high Hagley Dam. Two dams further on, Bill stoped for a short swim at the bottom of the Experimental Station Dam. Not everyone elected to run the eight foot verticle dam just below that. Mike, Ed, and Mark did run this major drop without any trouble though. Tom even did it twice. They then ran the Fish Ladder Dam, and the Mill Road Dam. When they got to the Waterworks Inlet Dam down in Wilmington (The one that almost took out Ed Dunn some years ago) some scraped down the Fish Ladder, and some just ran it over the middle. At the Brandywine Zoo most took out, but Ed, Tom, Bernie, and Mark continued on to the last Dam above the Market Street Rapid, So the could say they had done the whole river. It was agreed that a good time was had by all